FLCI: Functional Linguistic Communication Inventory

Description

Ages: AdultTesting Time: 30 minutesAdministration: Individual

Essential for professionals who see moderate and severe dementia patients, the FLCI is a standardized instrument for evaluating functional communication. Easy to administer, this test takes approximately 30 minutes and no special training is required. Based on years of research, the FLCI is useful in evaluating a client's abilities in these areas:

• greeting and naming
• answering questions
• writing
• sign comprehension
• object-to picture matching
• word reading and comprehension
• following commands
• pantomime, gesture and conversation

Determine a client's baseline level of function, the severity of the patient's dementia, and the client's preserved functional skills. Make comparisons of examinee's performance to performance profiles of other patients at different levels of severity.

Information provided by test results is crucial for MDS reports, writing treatment goals and functional management plans, discharge summaries, and counseling caregivers.

Complete FLCI kit includes: Manual, Stimulus Book, 25 Response Record Forms, 25 Score Form Sheets, and Object Kit all in a sturdy storage box. 1994